What baffles me more than anything is that it had taken most people this f***ing long to see Tomlin for what he is.
I guess his exceedingly well developed line of bull shit has duped dumbasses for quite a while now...
Tomlin was sold as a defensive guru, especially a DBs specialist. He’s had 12 years to build this defense the way he wanted it and it looks like ass on a weekly basis. HE had major input on drafting these players. HE coaches them. HE is supposed to have the final say in the defensive schemes and gameplanning. Yet for so long he had always been given a pass and the blame was placed on the defensive coordinator or the players themselves.
The offense has slowly been built into one of the most talented units in the league, more than capable of 30+ a game yet they are wildly inconsistent and can easily go from scoring 50 one week to struggling to 13 the next. Teams that have shitty run Ds, they throw 50 passes against. Teams that have shitty pass Ds, they pound the rock against them. It’s like Tomlin is always trying to show how smart and outside the box thinking he is but he f***s over the team repeatedly because his “genius” doesn’t work.
Pitch plays on 3rd and 4th and short, to slow running backs? 50 yard bombs on 3rd and 2 into double coverage? Never scheming receivers open for easy pitch and catches? LBers on TEs and WRs on every play? 10 yard cushions on 3rd and 4? WTF is going on out there? I think some kid who won his local Madden tournament could come up with better playcalling and scheming than this clown show.
But I’m glad they the local media is beginning to put the heat where it belongs now. Whether or not they’ll keep the fires stoked I don’t know.
Boswell has been shit this year after being money last year but if you really step back and look at it, the games should not have been on his foot so much for the past 2 seasons. How many wins last season were because the Steelers has to pull some miraculous drive out of their ass to get Bos in a position to win it? Same shit is happening this year. This offense should not have to pull miracles off each and every week just for a chance to win it in the final seconds. They should be able to easily put up 30 a game and have the game out of reach for the opposition at the end of the 4th quarter. But they don’t at a constant pace. They bumble and stumble and fumble and let other teams hang around. If you want to make it easier on your D, then the offense has to keep scoring and forcing the opposing team to become one dimensional to catch up. Steelers don’t do that.
It was plain as day that Tomlin, in all his glorious arrogance, today decided to “ride the D” to a victory that he thought he had in the bag. Didn’t need Ben back on there because he trusted the D to hold. Didn’t need to call TO when the Raiders were about to score because he trusted the D. This team is built to outscore opponents, not be a defensive juggernaut.
Tomlin is like a politician who lets the bullshit flow with ease, ooing and awwing people with big words and platitudes and cliches while never really saying anything and then failing to get the results that he promised, yet the dumb f***s still re elect him.
I guarantee that Ben threatened to retire last year because he knows that Tomlin runs a shit show with zero accountability or discipline and he was sick of it. From the ridiculous posing on the field after mundane plays to guys yelling into opposing teams locker rooms before games, to guys showing up late to meetings or not showing up at all, to the off the field garbage with social media and the sort. You don’t see that shit with BB and the Pats because he doesn’t put up with that. You focus on football until you can execute at a nearly flawless level and if you f*** up a few times, your gone. Stir things up off the field and you’ll be disciplined. I remember Welker making some joke about Rex Ryan’s foot fetish before a game against the Jets and BB benched him for the first quarter. I remember a kick/punt returner for the Pats muffing a couple of kicks, IN A GAME THAT THEY WON, and he was released on Monday morning. Harrison said he witnessed Brady running scared to a meeting because he was afraid of being late...
That’s not the culture in Pittsburgh, not by a long shot. From AB’s diva antics on and off the field, his live-streaming in the locker room, his social media nonsense, his over the top celebrations that kept penalizing the Steelers, to Bell’s looking past the Jags last year on social media and Tomlin on national TV, to Bell completely missing the meeting before the Jags game, to Mike Mitchell screaming into Jacksonville’s locker room before they game that but the end of it they were “gonna know his name”, to the Harrison situation last year... Complete clown show, top to bottom.
This isn’t a focused football team. There’s constant confusion on both sides of the ball, distractions seemingly everywhere, lack of discipline and accoutability, etc. And where does it start?
